Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-22
genuine humility to keep it from an over |

bearing appearance. The party who
carries great deal of general informa-
tor, either real or imaginary, comes al
last, II he be not careful, to pettily ''Iord
1t" over the servile subjects whom he is
saturatIng with knowledge; and modest
people come often to bitterly resent the
airs that their instructors put on over
| them.
Sometimes, however, these engines OF
| instruction get themselves side tracked
| before they have time to shut down the
valves. 1 remember one of them on q
| slow steamer bound to Glasgow, who for
several days kept a whole tsbleful of
people in statistical subsection by his
dictatorial use Of facts and figures. He
had rich, mellow voice, and could say
things IN Way that made US nearly all
| nearly believe him in spite of ourselves.
| Certain OF his statements would be at
times mildly disputed by some one who
knew better; but he generally carried it
all his own way with his audience ct
large, for the ships library was small
and destitute of books of reference.
Finally verdant-looking youth from
Connecticut, who had been browbeaten
end Snuobed without mercy by this vol
unteer educator, met me one day on the
ALTERED deck with radiant smile on his
face.
'rve got him." seid he.
OF course, being of Yankee descent, I
Immediately inquired who, why, how, and
in what way; and the youth replied, softly
and gleefully:
al put my whole set of Chambers En-
cyclop8dia, in three compact Volumes,
into my trunk before 1 came
away. Folks laughed at me, but 1
told 'em should have use for it. I've
got 'em up out of the hold, and
they're all in NY st&teroom ready to fire.
I've picked cut s. subject among the AS,
and studied on it al the forenoon. You
| introduce it for me at dinner, and make 8
statement that it's so and so. The Pesti-
lence that walketh in words will contra.
dict you. will contradict him. I will
get him to make ST least five untenable
statements. will lament that there is
no encyclopedias on board to consult, and
ask him if we shall leave it to Chambers
when we land. He'll say yes, of course,
and then you offer to lend US one that you
hsppen to have with you, and his little
term OF office will expire within twenty
four hours Of the present date"
| The little enterprise was q success, and
the Autocrat of the dinner table, after
privately asking me if l had the whole
set, subsidized into the position of One of
Us, and did not dare to contradict Con-
necticut during the whole remainder OF
the voyage.
THE RICH-AS-BLAZES TRAVELLER
has made some money in something OF
other t at ne never mentions, and is
playing and displaying it for all it is
worth or more. He buys mis- way SIS he
goes along, and part OF the country with
| it. His fees to servents everywhere near
| ly spoil some of them for the use Of trav-
ellers of moderate means. The
rich-as .blazes traveller is generally not 8
bad man, but he is very spt to be an ex-
tremely vulgar one. Bis wife and
daughters ere sure to be considerably
worse than he is in the matter Of dis
play, and the whole party has circus-is-
coming MIDTOWN appearance.
THE SICK TRAVELLER,
| whether travelling for health, necessity,
or going home TO die, is always 8 pa-
thetic object-deprived of home comforts,
and subjected TO all the herdships of 10
comotion. Let it be said, to the honor of
the world, that sickness is generally 8
! key TO the tourists heart, and that no
person is as well taken care of by fellow
travellers as d Northumberland invalid.
THE GREAT MAJORITY OF TRAVELLERS
have yet to be considered, and belong to
none of the aforementioned classes.
They are generally, when unruffled and
decentlyI treated,a well meaning and we'll
hammered class of people, with even less
faults than they have at home. They are
interesting in conversation, for it was
reading and study that induced them to
60 touring; they are kind and civil, for
there is no friendliness more welcome
than friendliness away from home; and
they frequently make acquaintanceships
that never cease until earthly life does
perhaps not then.
So let US cross the gang plank, and
away toward sunny and star gemmed
Italy! WILL CARLETON.